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...lyrics made the Spice Girls seem like Joni Mitchell--"On & On" was unlike anything I had seen or heard in awhile. A pastel-infused riff inspired by The Color Purple, I fell in love with the song's sweet sass, thoughtful hip-hop jazz-poetry. In the year of 'Lil Kim, Erykah was a refreshing surprise, reminiscent of Minnie Ripperton's '70s heart-break funk and Billie Holiday...
...life in its hits. Live begins with a rift on Miles' "So What" with background singers cooing "Badu." She goes quickly into a breezy rendition of "Rim Shot." "On & On" starts out as a fairly slow number, until midway through when Badu begins to rap. Using the beat from Lil Kim's hit-that-will-not-die, "Crush on You," she proves herself to be an above-average emcee with such lines as "You can read about Badu in your hip-hop Times...
...scream as loud as they could. Having declared that the audience was the loudest he had ever seen, Puff Daddy had all of his fans do the wave around the auditorium. Another large portion of the show was taken up by an obviously staged, sexually explicit argument between Lil' Kim and Puff Daddy concerning oral...
...Puff Daddy and the Family "No Way Out World Tour" made its way to the Worcester Centrum last week for two back-to-back shows. Puffy performed to sold out audiences along with Busta Rhymes, Lil' Kim, Mase and 112. During this concert, Puffy and his "family" clearly proved one thing: bad performances must be genetic...
...show-stopping remake of I'm Goin' Down. Those albums, however, were tailored for hip-hop audiences; Share My World, seems designed to appeal to lovers of the Wu-Tang Clan and Lisa Stansfield alike. The first song, I Can Love You, draws its melody in part from Lil' Kim's crass but compelling song Queen Bitch, but Blige, employing nimble vocals and all-new G-rated lyrics, transforms it into something mellow and moving. The ubiquitous Babyface produced two songs on World, including the apple-sweet Missing You and the mournful Not Gon' Cry (which was also...